U.S. Senate candidate Ted Cruz picked up another big-name endorsement Thursday when former presidential hopeful Rick Santorum said on Glenn Beck’s radio show that “Ted Cruz is spellbinding, a tremendous orator and principled.” …

Some things about Sheila Jackson Lee are legitimate subjects for discourse: her voting record, her staff turnover, her hard-driving style, her representation of her constituents, her past misstatements, and the way she speaks for “the voiceless” everywhere (not just her district).

But there are some things that are not proper subjects for public discourse. I’ve been reading every web posting about Rep. Jackson Lee for the past year and I would estimate that about 80 percent of the posts are either racist or sexist. Or both.